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If you control both ends of the pipe, then sure. But for better or worse, large chunks of infrastructure expect to send or receive JSON.


csv/tsv are alive & well for interorg data pipelines


But JSON uses floats, not integers.


Does it really? I assumed it used strings.


javascript uses floats as its own default numeric data type; but other languages do have integers, and might want to convert those integers into a JSON (string) representation




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